Hi all, first off, I did not see any rules against making a post like this. If it does not belong here and the mods need to remove it, please link me to another area for help (r/techsupport and blizzard support chat have done nothing for me)
My name is f3ltup and I have been playing overwatch since open beta. I have also been playing fps' all my life and have never been great at them, so I take great pride that I am a peak of 4.2k SR and are among some of the best players. This is why this is slowly starting to dishearten me.
Before playing competitively, I just never messed with any video settings. After I joined a team and started playing more, I followed this guide to optimize my game and try to get the highest FPS possible, I used high textures, and medium anti aliasing as the only exceptions from that guide. I found it odd that in team fights my machine could dip towards 115 but I didn't know how well Overwatch was optimized and I didn't make a big deal out of it. For reference, my machine is here:
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After watching some pro streamers, I realized it was strange that a lot of them running the same or worse cpu's than me, and 1070's and would be 200 frames+ almost all the time. I did not find a huge difference between 144 Fps and 120. But I really was looking into streaming. When I would start streaming, it would start to become noticeable. I would start out around 160 fps, but after an hour or two I would be dipping towards 80, possibly lower. This happened the same way while not streaming but at a slight boost to fps, I would usually never dip below 100. Despite there being a change, me streaming on ultra low obs settings only used 2% of cpu power, and made me feel strange that there was such a difference. I should state at this point I was playing on 1080p downscaled 75% and everything on as low as possible.
Rewind to about last week, and I have stopped streaming while playing overwatch. Frames were getting very bad. Now, without streaming, I would be getting down to 70 FPS after 2-3 hours of playtime, and I would like to vocalize that it was not a temp problem. My temps are always very cool and that has not been an issue ever, even though I monitor them while playing. The only way to go back to my 125 FPS was to stop playing for about 4 hours or so, which I scrim and do tournaments for nearly 25 hours a week before comp, so that isn't really an option all the time.
This issue was not getting better, so I turned to blizzard support 2 days ago. I talked with one person who gave me a few solutions, and after one of them I had to restart my PC, so we had to say goodbye. The only thing that really helped was uninstalling geforce experience, but it really only boosted like 10 frames. That night, after a long day of scrims and comp, i was dipping below 70 without streaming. I go back into blizzard support chat and i get one of the best support people I've ever talked with, she was super helpful and wasn't using her macros much to talk with me. She tried as hard as possible but I really couldn't end up doing anything. Between the 2 chats, these are a few things I tried.
*Uninstalling geforce experience
*Uninstalling MSI gaming app
*2 things in the run menu that the blizzard guy told me to do, i think it had to do with third party apps interfering with the game, but either way this helped nothing.
*Checking temps (they were fine)
*running the game with no background apps whatsover
*checking all performance tabs in task manager (nothing above 50-60 :/ )
Just to say a few things that I know aren't 100% perfect with my pc, just to see if any of these might be the issue would be that I have a tad bit of gpu sag, but this problem only effects OW so I do not believe that is the problem, I havent dusted my pc in a few months, but if I am correct that would only cuase a temp issue, and that isn't the issue.
So either way, last night after getting off the support chat, I sorta was fed up. I felt like I was weighing my team down, and for the wallruns and escapes I do as lucio, the frame drops were hurting my performance. So I reinstalled windows. This morning after booting up overwatch, I immediately panicked because I was getting 40-60 FPS, and 25 in teamfights. I quickly realized that I hadn't installed my GPU driver, so I did that and it seemed to work the same as normal, with a little performance drop. I would start around 150 FPS in pregame instead of 180, and another weird thing was that in the menu I wouldn't be pushing 300 fps, and it would sometimes rapidly drop to about 40 while navigating certain parts of the menu. Which was odd, but oh well, i was back to about 110 in game and teamfights. So i launch into a comp game, get to halftime, and then alt tab to respond to a discord msg. I click back in and I am back to getting about 60 fps, and maintain that until i restart the client, again, dipping to almost 25 during teamfights.
Also, after reinstalling windows my computer is running quite badly. Input lag is pretty heavy on windows and it seems to just be running slower.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, if you have any insight at all please don't hesitate to comment.
